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Artist: The Rolling Stones
Title: Beggars Banquet
Label: Decca SKL 4955 and London PS 539
Released: December 6, 1968 [UK] and December 7, 1968 [USA]


Here is Vol. 18 of the Stones Russian boots. Following the long sessions for the previous album in 1967 and the departure of producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards hired producer Jimmy Miller, who had produced the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic. The partnership would prove to be a success and Miller would work with the band until 1973. Beggars Banquet was Brian Jones' last full effort with the Rolling Stones.

By June, the sessions were nearly completed in England, with some final overdubbing and mixing to be done in Los Angeles during July. However, both Decca Records in England and London Records in the US rejected the planned cover design - a graffiti-covered lavatory wall. The band initially refused to change the cover, resulting in several months' delay in the release of the album. By November, however, the Rolling Stones gave in, allowing the album to be released in December with a simple white cover imitating an invitation card. (The letters R.S.V.P. that appear on this version of the cover are an abbreviation of the French phrase répondez, s'il vous plaît, which means "please respond".) The idea of a plain album cover was also implemented by The Beatles for their eponymous white-sleeved double-album, which was released one month prior to Beggars Banquet. This similarity, coupled with Beggars Banquet's later release, garnered the Rolling Stones accusations of imitating the Beatles. In 1984, the original cover art was released with the initial CD remastering of Beggars Banquet.


TRACK LISTING:

01 Sympathy For the Devil
02 No Expectations
03 Dear Doctor
04 Parachute Woman
05 Jig Saw Puzzle
06 Street Fighting Man
07 Prodigal Son
08 Stray Cat Blues
09 Factory Girl
10 Salt of the Earth

BONUS TRACKS:

11 Jumping Jack Flash (Original Mono Mix)
12 Highway Child (Unreleased)
13 And I Was A Country Boy (Unreleased Instrumental)
14 Family (Acoustic Version)
15 Blood Red Wine (Unreleased)
16 Downtown Lusie (Rough Mix)
17 Still A Fool (Unreleased)


Lineage: Original Silver CD > Nero > Wav > Flac

from silver

Label: Decca SKL 4955 and London PS 539
Released: December 6, 1968 [UK] and December 7, 1968 [USA]


Here is Vol. 18 of the Stones Russian boots. Following the long sessions for the previous album in 1967 and the departure of producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards hired producer Jimmy Miller, who had produced the Spencer Davis Group and Traffic. The partnership would prove to be a success and Miller would work with the band until 1973. Beggars Banquet was Brian Jones' last full effort with the Rolling Stones.

By June, the sessions were nearly completed in England, with some final overdubbing and mixing to be done in Los Angeles during July. However, both Decca Records in England and London Records in the US rejected the planned cover design - a graffiti-covered lavatory wall. The band initially refused to change the cover, resulting in several months' delay in the release of the album. By November, however, the Rolling Stones gave in, allowing the album to be released in December with a simple white cover imitating an invitation card. (The letters R.S.V.P. that appear on this version of the cover are an abbreviation of the French phrase répondez, s'il vous plaît, which means "please respond".) The idea of a plain album cover was also implemented by The Beatles for their eponymous white-sleeved double-album, which was released one month prior to Beggars Banquet. This similarity, coupled with Beggars Banquet's later release, garnered the Rolling Stones accusations of imitating the Beatles. In 1984, the original cover art was released with the initial CD remastering of Beggars Banquet.


TRACK LISTING:

01 Sympathy For the Devil
02 No Expectations
03 Dear Doctor
04 Parachute Woman
05 Jig Saw Puzzle
06 Street Fighting Man
07 Prodigal Son
08 Stray Cat Blues
09 Factory Girl
10 Salt of the Earth

BONUS TRACKS:

11 Jumping Jack Flash (Original Mono Mix)
12 Highway Child (Unreleased)
13 And I Was A Country Boy (Unreleased Instrumental)
14 Family (Acoustic Version)
15 Blood Red Wine (Unreleased)
16 Downtown Lusie (Rough Mix)
17 Still A Fool (Unreleased)